Porringer
Porringer
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- Description
- Bellied-bowl porringer with angled rim and bossed bottom; cast crown handle with triangular bracket is pierced with 11 voids and struck on top with the incuse serif letters "LB" at center of a circular shield on indistinct support flanked by bossed foliate volutes below a five-pearl (ducal) coronet with textured ground. "Mason" and "10" scratched on underside of boss. No touchmarks. Diamond or lozenge linen mark with sink hole from tinker's dam used to burn handle on to bowl. Turning marks across entire bottom underside.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- porringer
- date made
- late 18th or early 19th century
- 1770 - 1780
- place made
- United States: New England
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 in x 7 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 20.0025 cm x 13.6525 cm
- ID Number
- DL.388320
- catalog number
- 388320
- accession number
- 182022
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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